VEVEY, SWITZERLAND.- Musée Jenisch presents Rembrandt 1606-2006 -
An anthology of the collections. The most outstanding engravings of a Swiss public collection. The Cabinet cantonal des estampes holds a collection of over 100 etchings by Rembrandt, one of the most remarkable collections held in a Swiss museum. It was started last century by three enlightened amateurs and has been regularly enriched ever since. An impressive selection is shown for the celebration. for the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt’s birth. The exhibition invites us to follow a chronological presentation in which the periods of Rembrandt's life reflect the creation of his engraved master pieces

Born in Leyde on 15 July 1606, Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn is the ninth child of a miller’s family on the Rhine river - hence the nickname van Rijn. He was the only one among his brothers to have the privilege to follow classic studies. Yet he dropped them to dedicate himself to art and took lessons from various painters in Leyde and Amsterdam. In 1626 he opened a workshop in Leyde and started making engravings, above all portraits of beggars and members of his family, freely sketched on etching varnish.